Do baseball playoffs provide poor picture of who's best ... and would that carry over to college football?

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. -- A reader writes after the Phillies' loss in the playoffs:

Baseball sure has problems.

Clearly, over the course of the 162 game season, the Phillies showed themselves as the best team in the NL. It wasn't even close. Now, after a silly 5 game series, they are out of the playoffs.

I'm wondering. Do baseball purists now view the division title as more respected than a league championship, or even a World Series win? I know I do. After all, I lived through the '90s with the Atlanta Braves.

In much the same way as Billy Beane re-defined the way that baseball-men look at players, can we now look at divison winners in a different light than World Series champs?

Do you agree?

And do you see the potential for the same scenario in the"any given Saturday" of college football if there was some eight or 16-team playoff? What if the season's best team didn't emerge as champion? Would that cheapen the playoffs or the regular season? Or does his baseball argument make sense as an argument against a football playoff?